Is alcohol protection for the heart exaggerated? In this week’s online New Zealand Medical Journal clinicians raise question marks over the protective effect for the heart of drinking moderate daily ...

Alcohol will never be a wellness product—but how and what you drink can make a noticeable difference in how your body feels during the night and the next day. If you’re trying to enjoy a drink without ...

Most people know that smoking causes cancer and that there's no "safe" number of cigarettes that are OK to smoke.

An Aboriginal legal aid service says Alcohol Protection Orders will not address the problems of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory. The Government wants to ban anyone who commits a serious ...

Health risks of drinking alcohol: When you drink alcohol, it causes harm by weakening the gut’s natural defences and letting bacteria leak into the liver, where they fuel even more damage (Image: ...

In addition to boosting heart health, moderate alcohol consumption might also protect against some types of arthritis, a preliminary mouse study suggests. Mice that drank diluted ethanol were about 40 ...

Shadow Attorney-General Michael Gunner says it would be impossible for police to enforce a Northern Territory Government banned drinker plan. Proposed Alcohol Protection Order (APO) laws would give ...

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) may be influenced by genetic factors in both the mother and child. Allelic variations of the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH2) gene influences alcohol metabolism. Researchers ...